A co-worker hooked me up with this sweet sticker. Makes sense since I boot my X301 with a VM natively.
posted on March 05, 2010 ∞
Enable the GPS on Your X301
One of the big things that I nerded out over when purchasing my Thinkpad X301 was its integrated broadband modem (an Ericsson F3507G) and its bundled GPS sensor.
I know that Windows 7 was going to have built-in location sensors by default, and I was hoping to enable this. Sadly the drivers weren’t there for either of these devices.
Luckily, Jack (author of the link) has just found out that there are new drivers which both enable the modem as a native networking device, but also enable the GPS device as a native win7 location sensor!
Between this and the recently-featured-on-Lifehacker Geosense, I think I’ll be writing a little widget and an app or two using the win7 location platform. Super cool.
posted on March 03, 2010 ∞
(via) The First Internet Marketing Conference, San Francisco, 1994
posted on March 01, 2010 ∞
Once a game starts to do freemium monetization, the natural tendency is to simply abandon aspects of gameplay which require greater cognitive skills altogether. The people who are attracted to such things will on principle never pay any money, and the ones who remain - the ones who really just care about getting ahead in the game by any means, will find anything which absolutely requires developing skills overly frustrating, and will likely just get scared off by it.— (via) Bram Cohen
posted on March 01, 2010 ∞
(via) Architectural Misinterpretation
posted on February 28, 2010 ∞
The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that William Shatner will star in the pilot for a sitcom based on Shit My Dad Says, a popular Twitter feed with over a bazillion followers. This development marks either an exciting new evolutionary leap forward for TV-Internet cross-pollination or the end of civilization as we know it. One thing is certain: with Shatner in the lead this project is going to be classy as fuck.— (via) The Onion
posted on February 28, 2010 ∞
(via) Some truly hilarious yelling on CSPAN. Great action.
posted on February 27, 2010 ∞
I Can’t Go For That - Daryl Hall, Chromeo, niiiiiice.
posted on February 27, 2010 ∞
Climbing, Natalija Gros. This girl is a fantastic climber. The craziest part is how easy she makes it look. Makes me feel like I could do some bouldering without even trying.
posted on February 25, 2010 ∞
Then Hel asked what this Holden’s father was like, so I told her if she wanted to know the truth Holden didn’t want to go into all that David Copperfield-kind of business. It bored him and anyway his “parents would have [had] about two hemorrhages apiece if [he] told anything personal about them.” You see, this Holden, I said, he just can’t find anybody decent in the lousy world and he’s in some sort of crumby Californian home full of psychiatrists.— Aw, the World’s a Crumby Place, the 1951 NY Times review of Catcher in the Rye
posted on February 24, 2010 ∞
welcome...
to periphery.org, a weblog that I maintain. Every time a lightbulb goes off in my head, I try to post the solution here. I also tend to post interesting quotes, links, etc.
I also post code here. I try to maintain it in a Git repo, and every time I check in something new I'll write an entry here with some explanation and examples.
